These are the kinds of paw prints you won’t mind finding around the house. With the help of the Dublin Arts Council, the Friends of the Shelter recently held a silent art auction with all the proceeds benefiting the medical care of the sick and injured shelter dogs at the Franklin County Animal Shelter.

These are the kinds of paw prints you won’t mind finding around the house. With the help of the Dublin Arts Council, the Friends of the Shelter recently held a silent art auction with all the proceeds benefiting the medical care of the sick and injured shelter dogs at the Franklin County Animal Shelter. Brianne the Boxer demonstrates her talent as painter, and the DAC’s resident kitty draws inspiration from “PawP” art in his digital masterpieces.

On this episode of Broad & High, The Weinland Park Story Book project is the result of a long collaboration between the Wexner Center for the Arts and the residents and children of the Weinland Park community. It also features The Dublin Arts Council, The Franklin County Animal Shelter, and Artist Profile: Kevin Farrell.

On this episode of Broad & High, The Weinland Park Story Book project is the result of a long collaboration between the Wexner Center for the Arts and the residents and children of the Weinland Park community, a low-income neighborhood located near the campus of Ohio State University. It also features The Dublin Arts Council, The Franklin County Animal Shelter, and Artist Profile: Kevin Farrell.

Columbus artist Jenny Fine says her camera has become a tool for facilitating intimacy between herself and her family, and nowhere is that more evident than in her â€œFlat Grannyâ€ series, soon to be on view at the Dublin Arts Council. The artist photographed her grandmother during the last ten years of her life.

Columbus artist Jenny Fine says her camera has become a tool for facilitating intimacy between herself and her family, and nowhere is that more evident than in her “Flat Granny” series, soon to be on view at the Dublin Arts Council. The artist photographed her grandmother during the last ten years of her life and has used those images as a way to extend her relationship with her grandmother beyond death.

What started as a simple cardboard cut-out has evolved into a full-size body costume, giving us a thought-provoking 21st-century update on the role of photographs as stand-ins for absent loved ones.

The Dublin Arts Council - like all museums and art galleries - serves as a caretaker of the Arts, from paintings to sculptures. But the DAC is home not only to fine art displays, but also fine feline displays. Allow us to introduce you to D'Art, the gallery kitty.

The Dublin Arts Council “like all museums and art galleries” serves as a caretaker of the Arts, from paintings to sculptures. But the DAC is home not only to fine art displays, but also fine feline displays. Allow us to introduce you to D’Art, the gallery kitty.

On this episode of Broad & High we profile Columbus artist and doll maker Amber Groome, 50 years of science and fun at COSI, paintings by Steven Walker & the fabric sculptures by Sue Cavanaugh, the custom made baton of ProMusica Chamber Orchestra’s David Danzmayr and the Dublin Arts Council’s gallery kitty D’Art!

On this episode of Broad & High, Gallery of Echoes last spring, Shadowbox Live presented an innovative collaboration with the Columbus Museum of Art–an evocative, multimedia performance centered around 21 individual works of art from the museum’s permanent collection. A Conversation with Wil Haygood, last month, the King Arts Complex honored author/reporter/biographer Wil Haygood at [...]

On this episode of Broad & High, Gallery of Echoes last spring, Shadowbox Live presented an innovative collaboration with the Columbus Museum of Art–an evocative, multimedia performance centered around 21 individual works of art from the museum’s permanent collection.

A Conversation with Wil Haygood, last month, the King Arts Complex honored author/reporter/biographer Wil Haygood at its annual Legends and Legacies event.Shifting Perspectives Richard Bailey began the Shifting Perspectives photography project in the United Kingdom after his daughter Billie-Jo was born. Sarasota Ballet, explores an award-winning program in Sarasota, Florida that teaches ballet to at-risk children.

On the next Broad & High, a Columbus artist Amber Groome welcomes us into her doll house. COSI celebrates 50 years of science and fun and we'll introduce you to a four-legged employee at the Dublin Arts Council.

On the next Broad & High, a Columbus artist Amber Groome welcomes us into her doll house. COSI celebrates 50 years of science and fun and we’ll introduce you to a four-legged employee at the Dublin Arts Council.

Plus we’ll take a look at Steven Walker’s landscape paintings, the baton of ProMusic Chamber Orchestra Music Director David Danzmayr and the large-scale fabric sculptures by Sue Cavanaugh.

Watch this all local episode of Broad & High, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on WOSU TV.

Beautiful.Â Strong.Â Unique. Words not often associated with Down Syndrome.Â After seeing photographs from an exhibition that has landed at the Dublin Arts Council, you may see things differently.

â€œWhen my daughter, Billie-Jo was born, there was no positive images of Down Syndrome,â€ says curator of Shifting Perspectives and photographer, Richard Bailey.Â In the course of researching his daughterâ€™s condition, he was disheartened by the photographs he found. Often they depictied people in institutions or disturbing images of people who simply seemed discarded.Â This set him and a group of UK photographers who were also parents of children with Down Syndrome, to create new images that reflected their experiences as parents.Â To create hope.

â€œWhat one of the main overriding ideas of the whole exhibition is to show that these are individuals.Â Our children are individuals.Â They canâ€™t be summed up by one little box that says Down Syndrome.â€ says Bailey.

Shifting Perspectives shows the rich, individual lives that many with Down Syndrome have.Â Over the course of seven years these photographers have captured images of marriage, of spirituality, of soccer players, and magicians.Â Bailey:Â â€œPeople with Down Syndrome have aspirations; they have wants, needs, likes and dislikes, just like everybody else. [They] can fall in love, have a job, they can do all kinds of things if they have the right support behind them.â€

The Dublin Arts Council and Richard Bailey held a self-portrait workshop with the local Down Syndrome community that echoed that sentiment.Â Richard asked the participants to show how they feel or what they are, â€œWe had somebody who likes to play guitar, we had a [college] graduate, an Eagle Scout, somebody who liked DJâ€™ing…I think the main thing this [exhibition] shows is for everybody to look at the individual, and not the condition.”

â€œThe idea was just to show the enthusiasm and the individuality and celebrate; celebrate our children.â€

Shifting Perspectives is on view at the Dublin Arts Council gallery though November 4th, 7125 Riverside Drive, Dublin, Ohio. Â For hours and information visit their website, www.dublinarts.org. Â Bailey and the other photographers continue to document new images of Down Syndrome through a generous grant from GlaxoSmithKline in the UK.Â To find out more information and see the photographs, visit: shiftingperspectives.org.

Producer’s Note: At ArtZine, we love when people share their feelings on the work we make. Â We were happily surprised that the segment on Shifting Perspectives is reaching a much wider audience than we expected, and have received an outpouring of thanks. Â It is, no doubt, mostly due to the amazing photographs and the message behind the exhibition. Â We thank our viewers for sharing how this has impacted them emotionally, and humbly accept your thanks and compliments.